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A Generalization of the Infinitely Deep Languages of Hintikka and Rantala

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Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka

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Jaakko Hintikka and Veikko Rantala define in [2] infinitary languages in which sentences may be of infinite depth. Recall that the syntactic structure of the sentences of ordinary finitary as well as infinitary logic may be described in terms of certain trees.

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Esa Saarinen Risto Hilpinen Ilkka Niiniluoto Merrill Provence Hintikka

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Oikkonen, J. (1979). A Generalization of the Infinitely Deep Languages of Hintikka and Rantala. In: Saarinen, E., Hilpinen, R., Niiniluoto, I., Hintikka, M.P. (eds) Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka. Synthese Library, vol 124. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9860-5_7

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